Performance Coaching, 3rd Edition

Part Four

Continuing professional development

Introduction

Coaching is fundamentally a simple process, a way of being and communicating that is defined by a small number of guidelines and rules. On one occasion, while speaking at an event in Dubai, I gave a group coaching session to 150 women. I took them through the four stages of GROW, asking only a handful of questions at each stage, and asked them to discuss their responses with each other or write them down. Afterwards, a woman came up to me in tears saying I had changed her life! That was a classic example of the power and simplicity of the GROW model in action.

After mastering the basics, coaches usually start to discover other tools and methods that may be complementary to coaching and ...